thicker by successive deposits on the under surface until
they fall off, to be replaced by others of the same kind; and the excess
of discharge may drop on the hairs below and form similar brownish
yellow crusts. The farcy ulcers may retain their specific form for a
considerable time--days or even weeks--but eventually the discharge
becomes purulent in character and assumes the appearance of healthy
matter. The surface of the gangrenous bottom of the ulcer is replaced by
rosy granulations, the ragged edges are beveled off, and the chancre is
turned into a simple ulcer which rapidly heals.

The farcy buttons occur most frequently on the sides of the lips, the
sides of the neck, the lower part of the shoulders, the inside of the
thighs, or the outside of the legs, but may occur on any part of the
body.

We have next an irritation of the lymphatic vessels in the neighborhood
of the chancres. Those become swollen and then indurated and appear like
great ridges underneath the skin; they are hot to the touch and
sensitive. The cords may remain for a considerable time and then
gradually disappear, or they may ulcerate like a farcy bud itself,
forming elongated, irregular, serpentine ulcers with a characteristic,
dirty, gray bottom and ragged edges, and pour out a viscous, oily
discharge like the chancres themselves.

The essential symptoms of farcy are, as above described, the button, the
chancre, the cord, and the discharge. We have in addition to these
symptoms a certain number of accessory symptoms, which, while not
diagnostic in themselves, are of great service in aiding the diagnosis
in cases where the eruption takes place in small quantities, and when
the ulcers are not characteristic.

Epistaxis, or bleeding from the nose without previous work or other
apparent cause, is one of the frequent concomitant symptoms in glanders,
and such hemorrhage from the nostrils should always be regarded with
suspicion. The animal with farcy frequently develops a cough, resembling
much that which we find in heaves--a short, dry, aborted, hacking cough,
with little or no discharge from the nostrils. With this we find an
irregular movement of the flanks, and on auscultation of the lungs we
find sibilant or at times a few mucous rales. Another common symptom is
a sudden swelling of one of the hind legs; it is found suddenly swollen
in the region of the cannon, the enlargement extending below to the
pastern and above as high as the stif